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Financial Support and Incentives
 Grant Deadline Approaching & Reminder to Register with New Online Grant System
The deadline for Creative Industries' annual Colorado Creates grants is 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 21. This year's application process is through a new online grants management system, and ALL applicants must create a "New User" account to start the application. After you have visited our website and read the guidelines to determine if you are eligible for this award, you may register and start your application. On page 7 of the FY13 Colorado Creates Guidelines there is a step by step process to assist you in registering. Applicants will use this system to answer narrative questions, upload a financial form and support materials and submit the completed application. If you experience any problems using the online system, please contact Jeanette Albert at 303-892-3838 or Jeanette.albert@state.co.us.
C3 Forum
 Presented by Colorado Association of Funders, Colorado Nonprofit Association, and Community Resource Center, the C3 Forum is a full-day event that facilitates dialogue and strengthens relationships between Front Range nonprofits and funders. Nonprofit attendees participate in funder-led discussions to learn about the grantmaking process and to build their grantseeking skills. Tuesday, July 31, 2012. Click here for details.
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Arts Education and Workplace Development
Grants Available to Schools for Arts Education Planning
Colorado public schools are eligible for 2013-2014 Success through Art (StART Schools) Arts Education Planning Grants. The deadline for receipt of the StART application is Friday, August 31, 2012.
Creative Industries promotes and supports opportunities for arts learning and the development of creativity skills for Colorado students, including formal training in the arts as well as arts integrated into other disciplines or core content areas. By supporting schools in planning and implementing "arts rich" environments and arts-focused curricula, Colorado Creative Industries is a catalyst for meaningful collaboration among Colorado K-12 public schools and districts, artists, and arts/cultural organizations, resulting in opportunities for increased student success.
One-year StART Schools Arts Education Planning Grants support planning efforts by a school to make standards-based arts instruction and/or integration of the arts into other academic areas an integral part of the basic curriculum for students and teaching strategies for educators. StART guidelines are available here. For further information, contact Arts Education Manager, Sheila Sears at 303-892-3852 or Sheila.Sears@state.co.us
New Arts Education Resource
 ArtsEdSearch is a new online clearinghouse that collects and summarizes high quality arts education research studies and analyzes their implications for educational policy and practice.
The resource is a project of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), and builds on Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, a compendium of research that AEP published in 2002 exploring the impact of arts education on student success in school, life, and work. Critical Links identified a range of outcomes of arts learning-including students' development of skills for creative thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration-which are of central interest today, not only to the arts education field, but more broadly to education policymakers and leaders concerned with preparing students to succeed in the changing contexts of the 21st Century. AEP has developed ArtsEdSearch as a resource for policymakers and education stakeholders and leaders to better understand and articulate the role that arts education can play in meeting this challenge. ArtsEdSearch is designed to be an interactive, living resource that will grow and evolve along with arts and education research and practice. ArtsEdSearch.org
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Colorado as a Creative Hub
Creative Capitol Exhibit: Our Town, Colorado
 Creative Capitol is exhibiting Our Town, Colorado, a documentary photography exhibit illustrating what makes a community unique. It is on display in the State Capitol and the Offices of Economic Development and International Trade now through December 3, 2012.
The exhibit includes 76 photographs created by 27 artists representing 11 Colorado communities, including Montrose, Carbondale, Arvada, Craig, Lyons, Denver, Littleton, Boulder, Lakewood, Burlington and Englewood. The show illustrates the people, events, landscape and architecture that make these places unique Colorado communities.
The Colorado State Capitol is located at 200 E Colfax and the Offices of Economic Development and International Trade are at 1625 Broadway, Suite 2700. Both facilities are open to the public from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday. For more information click here.
National Philanthropy Day November 9
 National Philanthropy Day is the special day set aside to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that philanthropy -- and those people active in the philanthropic community -- have made to our lives, our communities and our world. Celebrations are held annually in many states across the nation.
The 2012 National Philanthropy Day in Colorado will be celebrated on November 9, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver Colorado.
Nominations for the 2012 honorees is open! Click here to nominate your favorite philanthropist today!
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Creative Communities
Creative District: Salida
Salida is hard at work using the resources and technical assistance provided through the Creative District designation. Salida's Creative District will hold a public meeting for the creative industries in the district as well as representatives from The City of Salida, Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Corporation and the Visitors Bureau. The City of Salida will also use this planning process to allow Salida artists and their creativity to be a part of way finding and signage projects currently underway. Salida and Denver's Art District on Santa Fe are working to establish a sister district relationship art sharing program that will provide more exposure for artists from the two districts. There will be a new website soon. In the meantime visit salidaartists.com for information on artists in Salida and salidaartwalk.com for information on the art walk.
Terminal Velocity: An Inaugural Typographic Letter Scavenger Hunt & Bicycle Race Around Downtown Denver
 Denver is home to a prolific design-loving community, and one of the cornerstones of design is typography. AIGA Colorado, Colorado's professional association for design, has created Terminal Velocity, an inaugural event to celebrate Denver's diverse downtown through its typography. From advertisements and store signs to murals and landmarks, participating teams will leave no typeface unturned as they bicycle around town in a race to be the first to locate and photograph all 26 letters of the alphabet - Denver style! Saturday, June 23, 11 am - 2 pm. Learn more.
ARTshop Series Strengthens the Impact of Pueblo Creatives
The Pueblo Performing Arts Guild (PPAG) invites all creative industry organizations and individuals to attend ARTshop, a workshop series focused on strengthening the creative industries in Pueblo. The lecture series will take place on June 19, July 10, and July 24, 1:30-3 pm at the Rawlings Library. Participants may chose to attend all sessions or come to individually selected sessions. The cost for each session is $5 per person, and all PPAG members receive free admission. More information.
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Professional Development and Networking
Creative Industries Seeks Grant Panelists
One way that Colorado Creative Industries implements our mission is to provide grants that leverage local support for arts and cultural activities in communities across Colorado. Creative Industries awards these grants annually on a competitive basis. Grant requests are reviewed by peer panelists who make funding recommendations to the Council.
Panels will meet in different regions of the state in August, 2012. Panels are comprised of artists, arts administrators, educators, and community leaders who represent diverse geographic, ethnic, philosophical and aesthetic perspectives. If you are interested in participating in a review panel, please email a letter of interest and a resume or brief biography to coloarts@state.co.us.
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